Xiao Shi frowned and remained silent.

"Brother Xiao, are you expensive this year?" the big shopkeeper patted Xiao Shi on the shoulder casually.

"Starve to death three. Xiao Shi said.

"Twenty-three is a good age. The big shopkeeper sighed softly, "When I was twenty-three years old, I didn't have any money, so I followed a famous big brother on the road at that time to run a business. It was the first time in my life that I went to Yuegang, and it was really an eye-opener at that time, who would have thought that there would be such a big bazaar in the Gobi? Merchants came from all over the world with goods and cars, sat on the goods and bargained, they put their hands into each other's sleeves to bargain, others only saw them sometimes raise their eyebrows, sometimes their faces smiled, and no one knew what the price they were talking about. The eldest brother said that a finger is a thousand yuan, and a bent finger is 500 yuan, so if you pay back the price once, at least 500 baht, and if you want to pay back 100 baht, you can't compare to the gesture. I thought, 100 baht, that's enough money for my family to spend a few years! Such a large sum of money is not enough to make people bend their hands!"

The big shopkeeper looked at the sand mountain standing in the sky, and the camel caravan was turning around the foot of the mountain, and the camel bell could be faintly heard.

He sighed again, "At that time, it was an extremely remarkable thing to be able to go to Moon Harbor once. In Yuegang, there is nothing you want, silk, porcelain, lacquerware, weapons, good wine, jewelry and jade, delicacies, and even stunning women, there are so many dazzling that your eyes fall out. The big brothers have done a big business, and when they are in a good mood, they grab a lot of money to reward people, open a good wine one by one, and call dozens of delicate and soft beauties to drink with us at a time, as long as you give money, she is willing to help you do anything. My eldest brother also called me one, a woman named 'Lian Dai', and now I don't think about it very beautifully, but when I sat next to her, my hand on her waist was stiff, and I didn't dare to move, smelling the incense on her body and only feeling fluttering. ”

"Big shopkeeper, are you talking in your dreams? Where birds don't...... Is there such a bazaar? You're talking about Wanzhou, right?" Li Changwen's eyes widened.

In this industry, except for the big shopkeeper, Li Changwen does not look down on other businessmen, they are all mud legs who come out to run goods, if it is not a last resort, who will come to the Gobi to work hard to make money? Li Changwen feels that he has seen the world, although his family is poor, he has seen the big city of Wanzhou, and the grand battle of the big shopkeeper in the city is not comparable to these mud legs. But it sounds like these mud legs go to catch up with the set, it's simply a place for gods!

"This is the little brother  don't understand, although the viper venom is also a valuable thing, but if the merchants who come to this Gobi are all here to buy and sell venom, isn't the Wanzhou pharmacy full of snake venom early?" The big shopkeeper smiled, "In the past, you were a partner, little brother, and we were inconvenient to understand some things, but now we are in trouble, everyone is a brother, to tell the truth, Yuegang is a black market." I don't know if it's the biggest black market in the Eastern Continent, but it's definitely a place of gold. This Gobi was originally the boundary of Xihua, and after the fall of Xihua, the wind and sand were raging, and now it is a borderless land. The royal family doesn't care, and Chunguo doesn't care, trading here doesn't have to pay taxes. The bulk of the trade here is not the goods, but the products of the barbarians. ”

"Barbarian?"

"Horses and furs, the royal family has forbidden the sea to the barbarians in recent years, and the barbarian products are not easy to buy and sell openly in other places. But you can buy it here, as long as you have the money. The things bought here were transported out of the Gobi direction, boarded on ships by the sea, unloaded in small remote ports, and entered the city in batches. ”

"Isn't this smuggling?" Li Changwen suddenly realized.

"Ten times the profit, smuggling or not, who cares about us traders? If you don't get caught, it's not smuggling. The big shopkeeper said frankly, "At that time, I said that if one day I can call people 'boss' in Yuegang, it will be worth dying." At that time, my eldest brother laughed at me for being unproductive, saying that people should have great ambitions, and people who are determined to travel a hundred miles often can't go down after walking fifty miles. Let me not have to look at the scene of Yuegang to envy, in the future, not only will people call me 'boss', but also have to call me 'big boss', to catch up with a bigger set than this Yuegang, and earn more Jinlian. But the eldest brother sighed again and said, life in the world is like climbing a mountain, always this mountain looks at that mountain, but in the end, how many people can stand on top of the peaks and hold the handle of the world?"

Everyone listened intently to the big shopkeeper, and no one noticed that Ji Lie, who had been standing behind the leather lead with an indifferent face, raised his head and reached out to hold down his chest armor.

The big shopkeeper smiled self-deprecatingly, "I was so blind at that time, how can I understand the meaning of my eldest brother's words? I also learned from those masters who knew how to write and hyphenate, and said that it is not necessary to reach the summit of this mountain, the important thing is to come with pleasure and do my best, and the place where I set foot is my peak, regardless of whether there is a higher mountain in front of him? We made a lot of money on this trip, with a golden ticket in our purse, a beautiful woman in our arms, drinking and eating meat in large chunks, and we are dead and alive, and we are heroes on the peak in this tavern!"

When I said this, my eldest brother laughed, and his expression changed after laughing. I have only two eldest brothers in my life, both heroes and heroes, and the landslide has not changed in front of him, but at that time I clearly saw him gloomy, his eyes were hollow, and when his favorite concubine died in childbirth with a child, he was not so gloomy. The eldest brother said, you don't understand the words 'hero of the world'. The eldest brother drew his sword from its scabbard with the help of wine, and sang and danced in the atrium, chanting an ancient poem that I did not understand. Now I only remember the sentence 'The wind rises thousands of miles, but the vicissitudes of the river are poured; ”

"It is the masterpiece of the former Mr. Chaobo, and now not many people know it, and it is a work of heroes and mountains. Yang Bai said, "Strong." ”